PHOTO at College of DuPage

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PHOTO coursework.

• PHOTO 1300Studio Photography 1opens 12 courses (12 directly)
• PHOTO 1201Tools and Techniques for Digital Photographyopens 11 courses (10.5 directly)
• ART 2281Time Based Media Iopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• PHOTO 1200Photographic Composition, Color, and Conceptopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• PHOTO 1400Color Photography 1opens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ART 2282Time Based Media IIopens 1 course (0.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate PHOTO work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 41 PHOTO and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 15 more PHOTO courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in PHOTO. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at PHOTO 2283

  1. ART 1151Two-Dimensional Foundations Studio
  2. ART 2281Time Based Media I
  3. ART 2282Time Based Media II
  4. PHOTO 2283Time Based Media III 1-

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHOTO 1250

  1. PHOTO 1101Foundations of Digital Photography
  2. PHOTO 1201Tools and Techniques for Digital Photography
  3. PHOTO 1250Advanced Digital Imaging

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHOTO 1450

  1. PHOTO 1101Foundations of Digital Photography
  2. PHOTO 1200Photographic Composition, Color, and Concept
  3. PHOTO 1450Natural Light and Landscape Photography

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHOTO 1602

  1. PHOTO 1101Foundations of Digital Photography
  2. PHOTO 1300Studio Photography 1
  3. PHOTO 1602Commercial Lighting Workshop

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PHOTO yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PHOTO yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

PHOTO does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the College of DuPage campus feed.